File and cabinet.



No. 783,595. PATENTED FEB. 28, 1905. W. 0. SESSOMS.

FILE AND CABINET.

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FILE AND CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED 0013.7. 1904.

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[N E/VTOR c? B y Alforuey Nrrnn STATES p Patented February 28, 190E.

\VILLIAM GICERO SESSOMS, OF BREWTON, GEORGIA.

FILE-J. AND GABINET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of [letters Patent No. 783,595, dated February 28, 1905. Application filed October 7, 1904. Serial No. 227,579.

To all whom it may concern:

live it known that 1, VILLIAM (JIonuo Sus- SO'MS, a citizen of the United States, residing at 'lh-ewton, in the county of Laurens and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Files and Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is designed particularly for .the use of druggists and physicians as a file and cabinet for prescriptions and the like and includes a novel and improved temporary file or hinder adapted to hold and retain a file oi n'escriptions or the like and to also provide means whereby a bunch of said prescriptions may be permanent] y secured together and removed lrom the file and stored away in proper order and arrangement.

in the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a pers 'iective view of the cabinet. the lower drawer being open to show bunches of prescriptions stored away therein. Fig.2 is a perspective view of the drawer containing the prescription-file withdrawn from the cabinet. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the n'escriptionfile removed from the drawer. Fig. i is a vertical section of the'prescription-filc, taken through the pin or tube on which the papers are stuck. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a bunch of papers permanently bound and removed from the file.

7 Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a desk or cabinet of proper form and construction to suit the needs of the user. It contains adrawer, (indicated at 7,) which holds the temporary file, as well as various other drawers (indicated at 8) for lahels,spccial memoranda, and the like. One drawer, as indicated at 9, is preferably partitioned into compartments of' proper size to receive bunches of prescriptions bound together in the manner and by the means to be hereinafter described, said drawer thereby aii'ording a place for storage of the files as fast as they are removed from the temporary filing device contained in the drawer 7. Said temporary filing de vice contains a board 10, which fits within the drawer 7 but is removable therefrom as occasion requires. Said board is oi. a size suit able for the nature of the papers to be filed, and in a druggists case the same will be of proper size to hold a prescription. Fixed to and projecting upwardly from this board 10 is a tube 11, of still or stout metal, and fitting over this tube is another tube 12, oi flexible metal, which forms the permanent binder for the papers. The latter tube is slitted at both ends to form tongues 15, which may be bent over to confine the papers thereon. A removable head 13 for the pin has a shank 14, which fits within the tube 11. The tubes '12 are provided in quantities, so that one can be taken ofi and another substituted as fast as they become filled. Before being placed on the tube ii the lower tongues 15 on the tube 12 are bent out to form an under clamp for the papers. The tongues at the top are bent in or gathered, so that the papers will slide onto the tube readily and said upper tongues support'thc pin, the head 130i which rests thereon. At the end and each side of the board are flat springs 16, which are offset inwardly at the top, as at 17, and serve to confine the papers in the file in a regular and even pile.

In the use of the device one of the tubes 12 is placed on the tube 111., and the pin-head '13 is then inserted in place. Prescriptions or other papers may then be stuck on the tile. \Vhen the tube 12 is full, the pin-head is removed and the tongues 15 at the top of the tube are bent out and down upon the pile of papers. This binds them together per1nanently, after which they may be stored away in the drawer 9 or elsewhere for future reference. Another tube is then placed upon the lile and filled in similar manner.

WV hat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A file comprising a bottom board, a tube projecting therefrom, an outer removable tube fitting over said tube and having flexible tongues at the ends, and a removable pin hav ing a shank fitting in said tubes and a head projecting above the same.

2. A file comprising a bottom board, a lil i ngpin thereon, and springs projecting from the edges of the board and arranged to confine papers thereon.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence oil two subscribing witnesses.

W'ILLIAM CIUERO SEEWOMS.

\Vitnesses:

J. B. BLACKWELL, M. Ur. THIGPEN. 

